BBC: Indonesia jet 'black boxes' found

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Last Updated: Thursday, 25 January 2007, 12:23 GMT

Indonesia jet 'black boxes' found

A US ship has located the "black box" flight recorders of the Indonesian plane
that went missing on 1 January, the US embassy said.

The USNS Mary Sears, which has been helping hunt for the missing Boeing 737,
detected a distinctive signal from the boxes on the ocean floor.

The Adam Air flight, which went missing half way through its flight from Java
to Sulawesi, had 102 people on board.

Parts of the plane have been washed up off the west coast of Sulawesi.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6298195.stm

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1. Doubts over retrieving Indonesian plane's black box

JAKARTA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Retrieving the flight recorder of an Indonesian plane that vanished on New Year's Day from sea water at least 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) deep will be difficult and costly, officials said on Friday.

A U.S. navy ship with specialised equipment that has been helping search for the missing Adam Air Boeing 737-400 detected signals suspected of being from the plane's flight recorder, the U.S. embassy in Jakarta said on Thursday.

Wreckage from the missing started turning up in waters on the west coast of Sulawesi over recent weeks, but crash investigators want to find the black box and main body of the plane to determine the fate of the doomed plane.

There were 102 people aboard the missing plane including three Americans, a father with his two daughters. No bodies have yet been found.

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